South Central Railway Provides Baby Food at Stations/Trains as part of “Janani Seva”

South Central Railway Provides Baby Food at Stations/Trains as part of “Janani Seva”

No.134/2016-17
15-06-2016
Secunderabad

SCR Provides Baby Food at Stations/Trains as part of Janani Sewa

Indian Railways has always been in the forefront and committed towards providing best services to the passengers. In this direction a new initiative known as “Janani Sewa” has been introduced o­n 9th June, 2016 to provide hot milk, hot water and baby food items at important stations and children’s menu items o­n trains.
Janani Sewa was prompted by an incident that occurred recently where a mother and child suffered due to non availability of baby food and milk while travelling in a long distance train. The mother complained about her problem o­n a social networking site of Indian Railways expressing miseries due to non availability of infant food like milk o­n the trains. Taking note of her problem, Hon’ble Minister of Railways responded quickly and instantly arranged to serve hot milk to her baby at the next station itself.

Taking a cue from this incident, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister of Railways in his Budget Speech-2016-17 announced a policy initiative and stated as “We would like to mitigate the hardships that mothers undergo while travelling with their infants and for this purpose, we will pilot availability of children’s menu items o­n trains. Further foods, hot milk and hot water would be made available o­n stations and changing boards for babies would be provided in train toilets”.

Further, Shri Ravindra Gupta, General Manager issued instructions to provide hot milk, children food items at all Food Plazas, Fast Food Centres, Jan Aahar, Milk Parlours o­n the Zone. He also advised the concerned officials to maintain standards of hygiene and ensure freshness of the food items. He also instructed the Divisional authorities to frequently conduct checks in order to maintain specified standards.

In addition to the above stations and trains, South Central Railway is also planning to extend the Janani Sewa facility to some more stations and all the important trains.